There's something about the very funny "Murder's a Drag" that conjures the past.
It might be seeing the same cast who first performed the play in Orlando a decade ago in this reunion production.
Or, of course, it may be because the play spoofs old...

And now here we are on our regular night with Los Angeles auditions. It always makes me so happy to see Cat interacting with the dancers waiting in line -- she is sunshine in high heels.
Judges tonight: Mary Murphy, Nigel Lythgoe, and professional goof...

And, tonight we're in Atlanta, where all the streets are named Peachtree and from where our last champion, Melanie Moore was launched. Along with Nigel Lythgoe and Mary Murphy, tonight's special guest judge is Debbie Allen.
Our first contestant is Audrey...

Las Vegas! 181 dancers will be winnowed down to 20 over eight rounds in four days. Judges will be Lil C, Debbie Allen, Adam Shankman, Tyce Diorio, Mary Murphy, and Nigel Lythgoe.
First up they're all doing solos and they could be cut immediately if their...

It's the 200th episode of "So You Think You Can Dance" and also the night on which the Top 20 will be revealed.
Cat calls herself "the gift that keeps on giving." You're not wrong, doll. Judges tonight are Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy, and Zooey Deschanel.
Two winners this year: one male and one female. I have a whole rant about how the women are "girls" and the men are "guys" instead of "boys," but I'll spare you.
Alexa Anderson is the first up, and after a recap of her failure to make the Top 20 last...

Foodies tend to move like flocks of birds, swarming a chic eatery, and then — swoop — off to the next. One of their newer perches in Los Angeles is in a part of town that hasn't had much of the food spotlight. Post & Beam opened on New Year's Evein Baldwin Hills, an area with as many economic ups and downs as the hills and canyons that give the neighborhood its name. Restaurateur Brad Johnson has cut the ribbon on some flashy restaurants in his native New York and in Los Angeles; now his foray...

You can't help but feel the maternal touch of Phylicia Rashad.
She exudes warmth, calm and centeredness that brings to mind ideal qualities of a mom. Her voice is honeyed and clear, her answers are specific and instructional, and when she says, "Oh, child," it's like getting a hug.
It's a role she knows well.
In the '80s, Rashad was the wise, witty and loving mother, wife and professional woman Clair Huxtable in the hit television series "The Cosby Show," which ran eight years.
She also received a...

Say what you will. Say stay off the sidewalk. Ora Alcox is going to see the space shuttle.
On Friday, the now-earthbound Endeavour will be wheeled by very slowly, a block from Alcox's Inglewood home.
She will witness it, she says; try to stop her:
"They'll have to drag me, screaming and crying. I'm 70 years old. I have MS and I plan to see this."
At the drive-through window at Randy's Donuts, Alcox was picking up her usual apple fritter.
And like a lot of those there for their morning fixes...

Years ago, Karrie Hinkle of Costa Mesa said, her parents watched Endeavour’s fiery trajectory from a Cape Canaveral launch pad not once, but twice.
A snail’s-pace crawl through the streets of Los Angeles hardly compares to the drama of a shuttle launch. But Hinkle still set up her lawn chair in a parking lot along Crenshaw Boulevard to watch Endeavour’s final journey.
“It’s happy and sad,” Hinkle said. “Sad the program is gone. But proud we have a shuttle here...

Sixty-three years ago, Donald McKayle had no idea that he would wind up in dance.
All that the kid from East Harlem needed was a spark to ignite a passion in him, which would enable McKayle to establish an ongoing legacy for years to come.
Since then, the award-winning dancer, choreographer and emeritus professor of dance at UC Irvine — who is now 81 — has choreographed nearly 70 works for dance companies in the United States, Canada, Israel, Europe and South America.
His choreographic...